TIM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2024 LATEST UPDATE.
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TIMS - NATIONAL TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
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TIMS - NATIONAL TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
Responder safety
Safe, quick clearance
Prompt, reliable interoperable communications
Purpose of the strategic highway research program 2 national traffic incident management responder training program is to promote consistent training of all responders and achieve three objectives
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TIM EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS 2024 LATEST UPDATE
Responder safety
Safe, quick clearance
Prompt, reliable interoperable communications - answer Purpose of the strategic highway research program 2 national traffic incident management responder training program is to promote consistent training of all responders and achieve three objectives
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Secondary crashes - answer Those crashes that occur within the incident scene or within the queue or back up, including the opposite direction, resulting from an original incident
TIM traffic incident management - answer The planned and coordinated multi-disciplinary process to detect, respond to, and clear traffic incidents so the traffic flow may be restored as safely and quickly as possible
Roadway Clearence time - answer The time between the first recordable awareness of an incident by responding agency and first communication that all travel lanes are open
Incident Clearence time - answer The time between the first recordable awareness and the time at which the last responder has left the scene
Enhance the safety of responders and motorists
Minimize motorist delay through traffic control and opening up lanes Restore the roadway to its pre-incident capacity as safely and quickly as possible - answer Safe, quick clearance is the practice of rapidly, safely, and aggressively removing temporary obstructions from the roadway to:
Move over laws - answer Require drivers approaching a scene where emergency responders are present
to either change lanes when possible and/or reduce vehicle speed
Driver removal laws - answer Require motorist involved in minor crashes (where there are no serious injuries and the vehicles can be driven) to move their vehicles out of the travel lanes to the shoulder or other safe area
Authority removal laws - answer Provide authority (and immunity from liability in general) for designated public agencies to remove vehicles and/or spilled cargo from the roadway to restore traffic flow
MUTCD Manual on uniform traffic control devices - answer Promotes the uniformity of traffic control signs, signals, and markings from state to state. This uniformity improves safety and driver expectancy
Common response terminology using plain English - answer When describing highway lanes left and right are determined from the perspective of the flow of traffic
Lane designation terminology: Lane numbering - answer Numbering system that assigns numbers 1, 2, 3,
etc. from left to right lane again from the perspective of the flow of traffic
Upstream - answer Approaching traffic
Downstream - answer Departing traffic
Queue - answer The back up of traffic that results from an incident or blocked lanes
Detection - answer The discovery of an incident is the first step in the TIM process. Can be a call from the parties involved, a call from a passing motorist, or by responders who happen upon them
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